Photo by Nina Sviridova and Dmitry Vozdvizhensky
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
Anichkov Bridge, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), 1974
Cadets of Murmansk Navy Academy (1971)
Leningrad, 1960s. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich.
At a seafood factory in Murmansk, Russia (1971)
Labels on the tins read Herring, Mackerel.
Aeroport metro station in Moscow (1938)
Soda machines were very popular in the 1960s
Soviet actor Andrey Mironov, 7 June 1970.
Leningrad 1950s
Day care in Taganrog, Russia. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (1950s)
Leninskiye Gory (Lenin Hills) metro station in Moscow, 1969.
Children playing in an indoors sandbox. Murmansk, a city in Russia lying above the Arctic Circle (1971)
Birch catkins engraving by A. Borodin (1971)
Moika river embankment in Leningrad (1973)
Novorossiysk, a city in the south of Russia (1970s)